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Coacervates, Conditions on primitive earth were favourable for chemical evolution

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Oparin

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Recreated
probable conditions on primitive earth

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Stanley Miller & Harold Urey

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3
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Proposed the recapitulation theory

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Ernst Haeckel

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4
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Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin

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Mutation

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Hugo de Vries

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Theory of Human Population
Growth/ Essays on population

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T. R. Malthus

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7
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DNA finger printing

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Alec Jeffreys

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8
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Reverse transcription

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Temin and Baltimore

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proposed Lac operon.

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Jacob, Monad and Lwoff

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10
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Structure of DNA

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Watson and Crick

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Genetic code

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Nirenberg and Khorana

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Cistron, recon, muton

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Benzer

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13
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Father of genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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14
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Chromosomal theory of
inheritance

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Sutton and Boveri

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15
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Rediscovered Mendelism

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. Hugo de Vries, Correns and Tschermack

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16
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Linkage

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T H Morgan

17
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Plant tissue culture

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P Maheshwari

18
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Discovered X-chromosome

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Henking

19
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Isolated nucleic acid from pus cells,
called Nuclein

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F. Meischer

20
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Rule of equivalence in DNA structure

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Chargaff

21
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Transformation in bacteria

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F. Griffith

22
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DNA is the
genetic material

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Avery, MacLeod and McCarty

23
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DNA is the genetic material

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Hershey and Chase

24
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Semi-conservative
replication of DNA

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Meselson and Stahl

25
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Triplet nature of codons

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G. Gamow

26
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discovered polynucleotide
phosphorylase

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S Ochoa

27
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divided the Earth into biogeographical
regions

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Wallace

28
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Green revolution in India

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M S Swaminathan

29
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discovered Restriction Enzyme

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H Boyer

30
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method to transfer plasmid DNA in
host cells

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S Cohen

31
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Father of Indian Ecology

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R. Mishra

32
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coined the term Biodiversity

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E. Wilson

33
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Rivet Popper Hypothesis

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P Ehrlich

34
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DNA/Protein sequencing

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Sanger

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